Good Hope Road

@2@Jim Stonebridge lives a solitary life with his father, a haunted man, on an apple estate in deepest Vermont. The year is 1932 and the grand house, once filled with laughter and parties, now stagnates under the weight of secrets and stories untold.@16@Jim is out fishing in the quietness of the woods one day when he spots a plane banking low over the river. From behind the pilot streams a mass of balloons, held by a woman with rich russet hair. Madeleine Scott, a spirited bohemian, bursts into their lives, bringing light and laughter to the orchard once more. But with the bittersweet unravelling that love brings come memories. Of a friendship forged on battlefields and a past denied. Of Obadaiah Nelson, a man born in the bayou who knows the cost of war. @16@Now it is time for reparation. @16@@18@Good Hope Road @19@is the sweeping story of two generations and love that binds, of courage and comradeship, and the soaring strength of the human spirit.@3@

Report

the emotional and psychological damage of war, and its effects on the men and their families, are sympathetically and sharply dramatised, while some of the writing is lovely. DAILY MAIL 20150731

Product details

• Authors: Sarita Mandanna, Mandanna Sarita
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 09.06.2016
• EAN: 9781780229058
• ISBN: 978-1-78022-905-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 129 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Weidenfeld and Nicholson
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Family Life / General, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, First World War fiction